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The Singing Mute

189 statements
36 feature instances
19 referencing feature instances

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The Singing Mute	comment	The Speechless are not always totally incapable of making sound. When not grunting, howling, using sign language or tap-dancing on morse code, they often obfuscate things when they reach for a microphone and put on a show with their fantastic tenor. When the medium in question involves the use of musical numbers, mute characters will often break out into song along with everybody else. This is never really weird (because if everyone breaking out in song and dance in the middle of the street isn't weird, why should this be?) as the songs they sing often represent a more internal narrative that only the audience can really hear, interpret and be aware of. Compare to Cute Mute and The Voiceless.
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The Singing Mute / int_141a7410	comment	Greg's frog in Over the Garden Wall suddenly bursts into song in episode six, but remains silent before and after. Though the ending also reveals that he was the Narrator All Along.
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The Singing Mute / int_174feaf6	comment	Elisa in The Shape of Water is a mute who has a deep love for Hollywood's classic movie musicals. In an Imagine Spot of hers she is transported from her kitchen table to a black-and-white movie set where she sings like a diva and dances with the Amphibian Man.
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The Singing Mute / int_1f72b18d	comment	The titular characters of Tom and Jerry appear to sing with mass crowds even though they usually never talk. Although it's not made clear if they're actually mute or just prefer not to talk.
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The Singing Mute / int_2179055c	comment	Cromartie High School has Freddie, who is very strongly implied to somehow be deceased Queen frontman Freddie Mercury. Throughout the series, he never utters a word, but he has been shown singing (though we still never get to hear him).
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The Singing Mute / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: Michigan J. Frog from One Froggy Evening is usually a regular, silent frog, except when he starts singing and dancing.
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The Singing Mute / int_3f5f4ea2	comment	Austin Powers in Goldmember was originally going to include a musical number "What's it all about, Austin?" in which Dr Evil's usually mute clone, Mini-Me, sang along with the rest of the cast. The song was cut from the final version of the film, but included as a bonus feature on the DVD.
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The Singing Mute / int_46518682	comment	On Sesame Street, characters that otherwise don't speak will sometimes be seen singing in crowd scenes, such as Sully, the Two-Headed Monster, and Frazzle.
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The Singing Mute / int_46a4b34d	comment	In The Elenium, the Cute Mute foundling girl "Flute" switches to singing wordlessly when she drops her signature flute in the ocean by mistake. Subverted when she reveals that she was always able to speak and is the child-goddess Aphrael in human form.
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The Singing Mute / int_489bf768	comment	The infamous animated film The Littlest Light on the Christmas Tree had a scene where the otherwise mute titular lightbulb ends up breaking into song, with a decent-sounding male singing voice to boot!
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The Singing Mute / int_4c6bb7c5	comment	In the PC game Stay Tooned!, Scoops the dog can only bark and yip like a real dog - except during his solo musical numbers, where he suddenly busts out a smooth Sinatra-esque baritone.
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The Singing Mute / int_4c99197e	comment	On The Muppet Show, many Muppets who are otherwise The Unintelligible (such as Beaker, the Swedish Chef and Camilla the chicken) will be seen singing along during musical numbers, although of course their voices aren't audible.
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The Singing Mute / int_4d04208	comment	Mr. Darling's sons in The Andy Griffith Show can belt out a really good song on most days, but generally respond to most attempts to get a word out of them with awkward blank stares.
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The Singing Mute / int_503d3d54	comment	In The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the titular Rocky is portrayed as mute (with the exception with some unintelligible grunting) when he is not singing. This is in contrast to the original stage musical where he actually could talk.
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The Singing Mute / int_61e239ed	comment	In the 100th episode special of Blue's Clues Snail is seen singing together with the other characters. As mentioned above in Blue's Big Musical Movie, her voice is noticeably deeper than you would expect.
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The Singing Mute / int_6ef03be6	comment	The My Gym Partner's a Monkey Musical Episode has Jake make a wish that forces everyone to sing and dance against their will, including the usually silent Horace, who Lampshades this.
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The Singing Mute / int_78621bac	comment	In his official appearance on America's Got Talent, Puddles never actually speaks a word, instead miming gestures before catching everybody off guard with his singing voice.
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The Singing Mute / int_81cb0d84	comment	The film adaptation of Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile depicts Lyle as singing with Shawn Mendes's voice. When not singing, he cannot make any vocalizations whatsoever. Parodied at the very end of the movie when the same pet shop where Lyle was found also has a beatboxing snake.
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The Singing Mute / int_8c517364	type	The Singing Mute
The Singing Mute / int_8c517364	comment	The Devil's Carnival features the Hobo Clown and the Painted Doll, both silent characters who communicate through light pantomime during the events of the movie. Both also have solo songs that, in Greek Chorus fashion, wrap up their respective sinners' subplots.
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The Singing Mute / int_938e19ec	type	The Singing Mute
The Singing Mute / int_938e19ec	comment	During crossovers, Sprocket from Fraggle Rock will occasionally be seen singing along, even though he's a realistic dog puppet who can only bark.
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The Singing Mute / int_9a881073	type	The Singing Mute
The Singing Mute / int_9a881073	comment	In Blue's Big Musical Movie, Snail belts out in a comically deep male voice "I just want to be me!" during a song number.
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The Singing Mute / int_a5cd45aa	comment	SuperKitties In Roboctopus, the Cute Mute Otto reveals a surprisingly romantic singing voice when joining Bitsy's song about feeling left out. Even she gets surprised at this reveal mid-song.
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The Singing Mute / int_ada7cb7a	comment	Jazztronauts: The Singer is completely mute, and "speaks" with an electronic tablet, yet is shown singing on two occasions. Tiny problem: The first song, Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, has a female singer, while the second, Que Chevere, has a male one, so either the singer is a masterful mimic, or the former song (the latter being the game's theme) was chosen to maintain the Singer's androgyny and throw off fan theories.
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The Singing Mute / int_b3b59d72	type	The Singing Mute
The Singing Mute / int_b3b59d72	comment	Lurch in the Addams Family Musical Adaptation sticks with his canon dialect of only grunting until the final number, when he sings his first ever words.
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The Singing Mute / int_c55d93bf	comment	A partial example in the stage version of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Quasimodo is deaf, and while he's not mute, he can only speak a few words at a time in a guttural tone. But when he expresses his inner emotions in his (non-diagetic) songs, he becomes clear-voiced and fully articulate.
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The Singing Mute / int_cacc7427	comment	Played with on Galavant, where the monks featured in the show have taken a vow of singing instead of silence.
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The Singing Mute / int_cfa85ecb	comment	In the stage version of The Little Mermaid, after giving her voice to Ursula, Ariel still sings in the songs "Beyond My Wildest Dreams" and "If Only." Like Quasimodo's songs in the Hunchback example, these are non-diagetic songs that aren't really being sung in-universe, but express Ariel's inner thoughts and emotions.
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The Singing Mute / int_da973332	comment	The Angry Birds Movie: Terence only dialogues in the whole movies are grunts and...a brief instance where he's singing.
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The Singing Mute / int_dad73e07	comment	The Oompa-Loompas in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Played straight in the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remake until the ending reveals that one of them was Narrator All Along.
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The Singing Mute / int_dbf18509	comment	Sort of referenced/averted by Jeopardy! in a Final Jeopardy question early in the Trebeck era. The question asked how many characters in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs sang "Hi Ho, Hi Ho". All of the contestants answered with seven, but Alex pointed out that the answer was actually six because Dopey couldn't talk.
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The Singing Mute / int_de0f8ee1	comment	Parodied in RWBY Chibi, when the villains form a band, Neo is the vocalist and is about to sing into her mic before being interrupted.
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The Singing Mute / int_e2b3cc8a	type	The Singing Mute
The Singing Mute / int_e2b3cc8a	comment	Averted and parodied in To Boldly Flee when Oancitizen gives away their position when he joins in the "Distraction" musical number when he was disguised as the mute Non.
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The Singing Mute / int_ee6c1abc	comment	In the 200th episode of Strong Bad Email, the usually mute Poopsmith is shown singing the celebration song. And he's voiced by John Linnell, to boot.
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The Singing Mute / int_ef894e37	comment	Played with in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Mrs. Hernandez is The Silent Bob for the first season, never saying a word, though people around her do react like she's said something. The show is a musical and she does participate in some songs... but her solos are still silent and she's given subtitles so it is the only time the audience can hear her "talk."
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The Singing Mute / int_fb57d4f2	comment	Is This A Zombie? features Eucliwood Hellscythe, a powerful necromancer who's very being contains so much destructive magic stored inside her that any sound she utters has destructive results. She wears heavy platemail just to contain the magic. One of the final episodes in the first season saw all of her magic get transferred into resident Magical Girl Haruna, which allowed Eu to sing to her heart's content.
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The Singing Mute / int_fde65181	comment	A Monster in Paris: The titular monster, FrancÅ“ur is frequently singing during the many musical numbers of the movies, but outside of that, he's unable to speak in anything other than insect-like chirps. It's implied he needs music to be able to speak.
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The Singing Mute / int_ff66c30e	comment	The Muppets: On The Muppet Show, many Muppets who are otherwise The Unintelligible (such as Beaker, the Swedish Chef and Camilla the chicken) will be seen singing along during musical numbers, although of course their voices aren't audible. On Sesame Street, characters that otherwise don't speak will sometimes be seen singing in crowd scenes, such as Sully, the Two-Headed Monster, and Frazzle. During crossovers, Sprocket from Fraggle Rock will occasionally be seen singing along, even though he's a realistic dog puppet who can only bark.
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Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile / int_619613a0	type	The Singing Mute
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